I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."